Minority Studies category: 588 books
Polish-Jewish Relations 1939-1945
Beyond the Limits of Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The following book was translated and published in English: Ewa Kurek, YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MINE - How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland, foreword by Prof. Jan Karski, New York 1998. She has also contributed articles in English that were published in Polin (Oxford:...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Today Frederick Douglass is best known for his autobiographies; but while he was alive he was known as a fiery orator who was always in demand. Collected here are ten of Frederick Douglass' addresses. And while it is impossible to hear Frederick Douglass speak today, these addresses still manage to...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2019
The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam. They are particularly relevant to understanding the way transnational women migrants from South and South East Asia, Christians,...
Reading the Fire
The Traditional Indian Literatures of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Reading the Fire engages America�s �first literatures,� traditional Native American tales and legends, as literary art and part of our collective imaginative heritage. This revised edition of a book first published to critical acclaim in 1983 includes four new essays.
Drawing on ethnographic...
Borneo Trilogy Volume 2: Sabah
Volume 2: Sabah
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Sabah, the first in the trilogy on Borneo, is a travelogue on rainforest and its Indigenous Peoples. Sabah opens its heart of darkness when Linseng penetrate to produce an audiovisual meant to show its uniqueness so appreciation of habitat and its relatively unknown peoples can be ascertained and so their wealth of knowledge will not be lost with the disappearance of their forests.
Migrant Marginality
A Transnational Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This edited book uses migrant marginality to problematize several different aspects of global migration. It examines how many different societies have defined their national identities, cultural values and terms of political membership through (and in opposition to) constructions of migrants and migration....
Invisible Student Scientists
How Graduate School Science and Engineering Programs Shortchange Black, Hispanic, and Women Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
In this book, Robert Leslie Fisher contends that thanks to misguided university and government policies, we have created a science elite that does not represent the demographics of the nation. We need to recruit more native-born women and under-represented minorities into graduate programs in order...
Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces
Somos de Una Voz?
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Taking up the charge to study discourses of marginalized groups, while simultaneously extending scholarship about Latina/os in the field of Communication, Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz? provides the most current work examining the vernacular voices of Latina/os. The editors...
African American Families Today
Myths and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
From teen pregnancy and single parenting to athletics and HIV/AIDS, myths about African American families abound. This provocative book by two acclaimed scholars of race and ethnicity debunks many common myths about black families in America, sharing stories and drawing on the latest research to show...
Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement
African American Explorations of the Gandhian Repertoire
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
How did African Americans gain the ability to apply Gandhian nonviolence during the civil rights movement? Responses generally focus on Martin Luther King’s “pilgrimage to nonviolence” or favorable social contexts and processes. This book, in contrast, highlights the role of collective learning...
Build Your Neighbour
Dismantle the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Now that most Canadian cities have “gone global,” do you feel overwhelmed by how unaware we are of the culture and backgrounds of our new neighbours? Do you wish you knew enough at least to start a conversation with them? This little book helps get us launched. It starts off in play mode,...
by Adrienne Su
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2012
- Author is recognized poet, recipient of 2007 NEA Fellowship in Poetry - Speaks to working mothers and first generation children of immigrants - Very accessible poetry - Previous titles taught at colleges throughout US
Neither Lady nor Slave
Working Women of the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Although historians over the past two decades have written extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they have largely neglected the world of the working woman. Neither Lady nor Slave pushes southern history beyond the plantation to examine the lives and labors of ordinary southern...
Poverty and Place
Cancer Prevention among Low-Income Women of Color
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
This bookexamines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequities even in the most advanced society of the world. This volume, while articulating health disparities in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area, including East St. Louis, Illinois, seeks to move beyond...